Mill-packer register



(No Model.)

G. L. WILLIAMS.

MILLPAGKBR REGISTER.

No. 258,836. Patented May 30, 1882.

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' UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.-Y

GEORGE L. IVILLIAMS, OF EDVAItDSVILLE, ILLINOIS.

MILL-PACKER REGISTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 258,836, dated May30,1882.

Application tiled July 6, 1881. (No model.)

'of my specification.

My invention relates more particularly to mill-packerindicators. Itspurpose is forregistering and indicating the number of packages orbarrels packed.

It consists of a combination of mechanical parts whereby the desiredpurpose is attained. I make use of dial-plates which are moved by thepacker acting upon levers, combined with ratchet-gears, pawls andsprings, and other parts, as will be hereinafter described and shown.

Similar figures and letters indicate in reterence like parts of themachine.

Figure l is a front elevation of my device with a part of the face-platebroken away, exposing the position of the dial-plates and tiguresthereon. Fig. 2 is a front view of the device with the top plateremoved, also showing` a part of the supporting-plate D removed. Fig. 3is a sectional View ot' Fig. l on theline no. Fig. 4 is a sectional viewot` Fig. l on the line a', with the side ot the box removed. Fig. 5 is afront view of the knee-jointed lever, its stop and way of attaching it,and of its working movements.

In Fig. 3 the metallic plateAand box-shaped body B form the base andbodyof the machine, which is rectangular inform. The base plate A isfirmly fastened tothe body B bythe studs and screws g g g, Fig. 2, andis held by them so as to leave a space ot' nearly one inch bctweenthem,in which the knee-jointed lever Ij, Fig. 5, is placed and operated.The plate A and the bottom of the body B areperl'orated, at c c2, Figs.3 and 4, for bearings for the stem of the non-circular plate-wheel F,which is placed inside the body B, with its spindle eX- tending throughand turning in both plates. The plate A has two or more screw-holes init for fastening it to a support.

The ratchet-wheel G, Fig. 3, with ten teeth upon its periphery, has astem or gudgeon soeketed in a hole bored in the face-plate ot'thewheelF. Itsotherstem extcndsupthrough the bearing-plate D and cover Cof the body, with bearings in either or both ot' them. A screw is cutupon its outer end, on which the crank N is screwed detachably, its usebeing for turning the ratchet-gears G II rapidly to set the dials Lm,Fig. 1, quickly, when requii ed.

The pawl c, Fig. 2, with its spring c', acts as a stop for theratchet-gear G by locking` into its teeth and preventingit from turningbackward when acted upon bythe friction ot' the pawl a and its spring l)during the reversed motion of the non-circular plate-wheel F, to whichthe latter is attached, and locks into the ratchet-gear G opposite tothe pawl c. A second ratchet-gear wheel, H, Fig. 3, with ten teeth uponits periphery, which teeth stand pointed in the opposite direction tothe teeth upon the wheel G, is placed, with one of its stems soeketed inthe stud h, upon the inside oth the body B. Its other stem end runs in aperforation made in the plate I), or one made in the body-coverO, as maybe preferred. The pawl c, operated upon by its spring` a', locks intothe teeth of the ratchet-gear H, Fig. 2, and holds it from turningbackward when it is acted upon in any manner by the pin I), which is inshapeelliptical, and inserted firmly in the face ofthe ratchet-gear G,by which the wheel His carried forward one cog to every entirerevolution of the gear G, thus moving the wheel H with the dial in, Fig.l, upon it, only one-tenth as fast as the gear G and its dial L aremoved, the ratio of movement and indication upon the dial being as oneot' -m to ten of L, or one hundred ot' L to ten ot' m. The dial-plate L,Fig. l, has the numerals from l to 10,01 0, which stands for ten, uponits` face. Beginning at 0, counted downward from let't to right, theseiigures run from l to 0 on the dial L, and they are exactly the reversein all respects upon the dial m. Each ot' these dials is puncturedsquare at its center, and is fastened upon the stems ot' the gears H andG, which are also squared for that purpose, Figs. 2 and l, by which theyare revolved from the motion imparted to the parts described by workingthe kneejointed lever Ij and spring K,

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in tilling a. package.

Fig. 5. These levers are fulcrumed upon the stem of the nou-circularplatewheel F, the

short arm j movably so, but the long arm I is attached rigidly theretoby the set-screw o, 5 Fig. 5, and they are worked in the space leftbetween the base-plate A and body B of the v machine. The movement ofthe long arm Iof the lever is limited to the space between the studs gI', and the movement of both parts Ij is shown in the dotted skeletonlines. For noticing thc figures upon the dial L m the openings 0203,Fig. 1, are made in the cover-plate C, which openings are covered withmica or glass. The figures 0 show in each of these openings when thedials are properly set for working.

The machine is fastened to a post close beside thc mill-packer, so thata projection upon the side ot' the packer will strike the short armj ofthe lever and carry it downward till it slips past its end, in doingwhich it carries the long arm I of the lever upward, thus turning theratchetgear G and dial Lforward one tooth each tirneit is carried downbythe packer The packer, on passing upward, strikes against the lowerside of thel short armj of the lever, and, as it is loose upon its fulclum,raises the end of it up till it is past, when the spring K carries itback to its proper position, andthe long arm I of this lever drops backto its proper position from the action of a spring or weight, K,attached to it.

I am aware that it is not new to attach registeriug mechanism tomachines-such as tlourpackers arranged to be automatically operated bythe motion of the packer and to record by means of a system of gearingand dials the number of packages or quantities deliveredhence I make noclaims to such device broadly, but contine myself to my peculiarmechanism.

I claimll. In a mill-packer register, the combination ofthe base-plateA, body I3, studs g, noncir cular wheeLF. ra tehet-wheels G H,dial-plates L m, and crank N, substantially as shown and described.

2. The plate A, box or ease B, non-circular wheel F, and ratchet-gearwheels G H, having studs and pawls, as shown, in combination with theknee-jointed lever Ij, spring K, and the reciprocating arni of amill-packer, substantially as shown and described.

3. rIhe combination, with the actuating-arm of a mill-packer indicator,ofthe frame or case A B, ratchet-wheels G H, dial-plates L m,noncircular plate-wheelF, jointed lever Ij, having the part I rigid andthe partj loose upon the shaft of the wheel F, and spring or weight K,substantially as shown and described.

GEORGE L. WILLIAMS.

Witnesses:

H. E. THOMPSON, HUGH M. THOMPSON.

